On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Jarry wrote: > Personally I do not see any advantage of it over /var/spool/mail. > On the other side, separate partitions for /var (with mail) and /home > (with user files) let me define different quotas for mail and files. > Well, at least I thought it, until I found out that mail is actually > in /home too...
There have been many discussions for years about how maildir is superior to mbox format... Im sure Google will help you find them. > Not for me, but for my users. Now I have to go through each mailreader > and find out how to force it reading mails from .maildir There is probably a global config file for most mailers. > BTW, if some users do not have $HOME, where their .maildir will be??? Not all email systems use /var/mail or $HOME, qmail+vpopmail stores email for everyone under /home/vpopmail/domains for example. > > You could add mbox to your useflags and emerge sendmail. If you *really* > > want to use mbox... > > That seem to me to be much easier. First I will find some info about it, > but if there is no substantial advantage in using maildirs instead of > /var/sool/mail, I will switch to the "old" mail storage system... We had all sorts of performance problems with mbox format - it is not scaleable, bigger mboxes produce huge loads on the server. I should also mention that maildir is inherently safer over NFS than mbox. Its clear from your posting that you have yet to experience the problems that have caused a lot of server administrators to abandon mbox format. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
